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Exports to US reach all-time high, widen gap with China
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Trump rekindles criticism: US forces defending 'wealthy' S. Korea 'free of charge'
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[Music in drama] Rekindle a love that slipped through your fingers
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Opposition-led Assembly unilaterally passes bill to probe Marine's death
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S. Korea discussed possible participation in AUKUS Pillar 2 with Australia: defense minister
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[New faces of Assembly] Architect behind ‘audacious initiative’ believes in denuclearized North Korea
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Seoul Metro to seek legal action against malicious complaints
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Illit, mired in controversy, remains on Billboard charts for 5th week
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Golden chance to liquidate babies’ gold rings?
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On May Day, labor unions blast Yoon's foreign nanny proposal
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Stricter code of conduct for public officials takes effect
Under a revised code of conduct that took effect Tuesday, public officials are now required to report in advance all personal meetings with retired officials.Civil servants must report to the head of their agency if they plan to play golf, travel, engage in other leisure activities or personally meet with a former colleague who has retired within the past two years. This is to prevent any chance of granting privileges to retired public officials or colluding with them.Those who violate the code
April 17, 2018
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Webtoon campus to be built in Daejeon to promote manhwa industry
Daejeon Information and Culture Industry Promotion Agency announced Tuesday that it has been selected by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism as the leading agency of local webtoon campus development.Webtoons are South Korean webcomics, or manhwa, that are published online.The budget worth 790 million won ($740,000) will be implemented on building a webtoon campus in Daejeon to foster the growth of webtoon artists and to provide favorable working conditions for them. (123RF)Webtoon campus
April 17, 2018
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Hospital arson suspect under arrest in Jinju
A fire broke out at a seven-story orthopedic hospital at approximately 00:50 a.m. Tuesday in Jinju, South Gyeongsang Province.Fire authorities believe arson was the cause of the hospital fire. It is said the fire was extinguished after 15 minutes. Firefighters helped evacuate 10 people, including eight patients and two caregivers, when the fire broke out. YonhapAccording to the Jinju fire department, one patient was transported to a nearby hospital after inhaling smoke. The fire consumed the fi
April 17, 2018
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Prank calls...or are they? Police respond to ‘noodle delivery order’
Prank calls to the police are no novelty. But what if a delivery order made to 112 is really a distress call in disguise? Gyeonggi Nambu Police on Thursday shared recorded clips of actual emergency calls it had received that are worth taking a second listen to, via Facebook Live broadcast.Of the two clips shared, the first starts with a woman asking for jjajangmyeon delivery to a motel room. Jjajangmyeon is a typical delivery food in Korea that is noodles dressed in savory black sauce.A woman ea
April 17, 2018
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[Trending] #Aircraft Sound #Jet Fighter Sound
Don’t be surprised; war isn’t breaking out here. People in Seoul were taken aback by sudden loud noises from aircraft on Tuesday morning, but it turned out to be sounds from training flights for an airshow. (Yonhap)As of 10:40 a.m., keywords such as “Jet Fighter,” “Seoul Jet Fighter Sound” and “Aircraft Sound” shot to the most searched words on Naver’s trending bar, while “Jet Fighter Sound” and “Aircraft Sound” were trending on Twitter as well. Many people said they felt threatened by the sudde
April 17, 2018
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Police seek travel ban for Korean Air heiress over alleged assault
Police said Tuesday they are seeking a travel ban on a senior executive of Korean Air Lines Co. as part of an investigation into allegations that she insulted an advertising firm official over a business meeting.The Seoul Gangseo Police Station said it has booked Cho Hyun-min, younger daughter of the airline chief, as a suspect and also requested the justice ministry to ban her from leaving the country.Police said the preliminary investigation against Cho has now become a formal criminal case. (
April 17, 2018
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KT chief grilled in illegal political fund probe
Hwang Chang-gyu, chief of South Korea's major mobile carrier KT Corp., appeared for police questioning on Tuesday over suspected involvement in illegal donations to lawmakers. He appeared at the National Police Agency at around 9:40 a.m., officials said. Police have been investigating allegations that former and incumbent KT executives paid some 90 legislators a combined 430 million won ($402,000) in illegal donations with company funds between 2014 and 2017. (Yonhap)Police suspect that Hwang ei
April 17, 2018
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Ex-President Park decides against appealing 24-year prison term
Former President Park Geun-hye on Monday gave up appealing her 24-year prison sentence, but an appeals trial will still be held as the prosecution filed an appeal of its own, court officials said Monday.Park submitted an appeal waiver to the Seoul Central District Court, officials said. The move makes clear that she's going to boycott the appeals trial, as she did the first trial. Park has boycotted all court proceedings, claiming she's being treated unfairly. Ex-President Park Geun-hye (Yonhap)
April 16, 2018
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Arrest warrant sought for ex-prosecutor in sexual misconduct probe
A special prosecution team on Monday requested a court warrant to arrest a former senior prosecutor on the charge of abuse of power in a sexual misconduct probe.The special probe team filed for the writ against Ahn Tae-geun, who is accused of groping a junior colleague during a funeral dinner in October 2010. He is also suspected of using his influence to have her transferred to a position outside of Seoul five years later, after she raised the issue with the prosecution's internal inspection of
April 16, 2018
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Over 15,000 people apply for state’s vacation fund
More than 15,000 South Koreans have applied for the government’s special vacation fund, a new state project. The Korea Tourism Organization said Monday that 1,211 corporations and 15,443 individuals had filed applications by April 11.Although applications are open until April 20, the organization expects the number of individual applicants to soon surge beyond 20,000, as 1,200 workers are applying per day on average. (123RF)The fund, called “Vacation Fund for Workers,” is supported by corporati
April 16, 2018
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Police arrest homeless man for breaking into nursing home
Police have apprehended an armed homeless man in his 60s for breaking into a nursing home in western Seoul, officials said Monday. No one was injured.The Mapo Police Station said it has put a 62-year-old man surnamed Shin under custody after arresting him on the site. He faces possible charges of imprisonment and others, they said.He barged into the nursing home at around 10:25 a.m., on the seventh floor of a building in western Seoul with a weapon in his hand. He locked the entry and reportedly
April 16, 2018
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[Photo News] Koreans remember Sewol
Koreans around the country are mourning the fourth anniversary of the Sewol Ferry sinking, which claimed the lives of over 300 passengers, many of them high school students, on April 16, 2014. Officials enter the conference room at the Korea Coast Guard headquarters, located at the Central Government Complex in Sejong on Monday. Korean expats hold a memorial for victims of the ferry incident, which capsized four years ago, at a village near Munich, Germany on Sunday, local time. Funeral offician
April 16, 2018
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Man arrested for robbery at convenience store
Pyeongtaek Police Station in Gyeonggi Province is investigating a suspect on charges of robbery at a convenience store on Monday morning.The suspect is accused of entering a convenience store located in Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi Province, and repeatedly striking the clerk’s head around 5 a.m. (Yonhap)Having failed to open the safe in the convenience store, the suspect ran away to his house but was arrested 20 minutes later by police.The clerk was heavily injured and sent to a hospital.The suspect sai
April 16, 2018
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Daejeon to equip schools with air purifiers
Daejeon Metropolitan Office of Education will help equip all schools in its city with air purifiers, in order to improve air quality within school facilities in the face of worsening fine dust concentration in Korea. Every kindergarten, elementary, middle, high and special schools will be included in the new decision that was announced Monday. The education office will use 10 billion won ($9.3 million) of the budget to install air purifiers and also attach an air filtration layer to its existing
April 16, 2018
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Police question ad firm officials over Korean Air heiress' alleged assault
Police said Monday they called in officials of an adverting company to check allegations that a daughter of Korean Air Lines Co.'s chief insulted one of their colleagues during a business meeting.The Seoul Gangseo Police Station was questioning some of the eight officials of the ad firm as reference witnesses to cross-check arguments from both sides, officials said.Police have launched a preliminary investigation into allegations that Cho Hyun-min, a senior executive at South Korea's major air c
April 16, 2018
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[Trending] #Remember0416
Exactly four years ago, a tragic maritime accident happened in waters off the southwestern island of Jindo that took the lives of 304 people, including 248 secondary school students and teachers from Ansan Danwon High School. Time has passed since then, but the people of Korea have kept the promise that they won’t forget April 16, 2014. The phrase “Remember0416” quickly became the most trending word on Twitter Monday morning, as more than 275,000 tweets including the words were posted on the soc
April 16, 2018
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Korea's naval destroyer near Ghana to search for hostages
A South Korean warship is operating in the Gulf of Guinea in search of the country's fishermen apparently kidnapped by local pirates, the military said Monday.Three South Korean crew members of a 455-ton fishing boat, along with two Greeks on board, were reportedly taken hostage in waters off the western coast of Africa late last month.South Korean President Moon Jae-in ordered the nation's anti-piracy Cheonghae Unit deployed to the Gulf of Aden to launch a search operation. (Yonhap)The Joint Ch
April 16, 2018
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Police to quiz KT chief in illegal political fund probe
Police said Monday they plan to question the chairman of mobile carrier KT Corp. this week over his suspected involvement in illegal donations to lawmakers. Hwang Chang-gyu has been asked to come to the National Police Agency at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, officials said. Police have been investigating suspicions that former and incumbent KT executives paid some 90 legislators a combined 430 million won ($402,000) in illegal donations, with company funds, between 2014 and 2017. Police suspect that Hwang
April 16, 2018
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S. Korean naval destroyer arrives in Ghana to help rescue kidnapped nationals
A South Korean destroyer carrying elite naval troops arrived in waters off Ghana on Sunday on a mission to help rescue three nationals who were kidnapped last month, military sources said.The South Koreans were abducted in western Africa on March 26 by unidentified forces while working on a fishing ship.Negotiations are reportedly underway for their release. (Yonhap)The Navy on March 28 dispatched the Munmu the Great, a destroyer operating in the Gulf of Aden as part of the anti-piracy Cheonghae
April 15, 2018
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Fighting dementia together
NAMYANGJU, Gyeonggi Province -- For Hong Jin-mi, it took her some time to take the early signs of her husband’s dementia seriously. At first, she thought he was simply trying to be funny. “I would ask him to pass me my cellphone,” Hong, 75, told reporters. “And then he would act as if he could not tell where the phone was, although it was right in front of him. And then later I realized it was him trying to hide the fact that he could no longer tell what a cell phone looks like. He was humiliat
April 15, 2018